The company is working with JVM developers, including IBM, Oracle and Sun Microsystems, to build a framework that uses information provided by IBS to improve the performance of JVMs, said Ben Pollan, manager of AMD's Java Labs. He added that the work was happening in research, and it could take several years until production JVMs leverage IBS.

In another technique, AMD is leveraging parallel programming by providing JVMs with better management of hardware resources in multicore processors.

For instance, garbage collection may be assigned to certain processor cores, while graphics operations are offloaded to the graphics processing unit (GPU), Pollan explained.